Responding to Liz Matson's recent query, Kim Callahan-- whose amazingly comprehensive daily news page we use regularly around here-- wonders why people don't spend more time on her own site.

I'd say it's because she's designed WB Online as a collection of reference pages, offering links with no (or minimal) commentary, rather than as a community or an opinion-based blog. Folks go to opinion blogs partly for news, and partly for the opinions, prose styles, or perspectives of the people who write them. Folks visit message boards partly in order to put in their own two cents, and partly because when hundreds of people are posting, continual new content is near-guaranteed. Folks visit reference sites to get the facts they seek, then navigate away-- even when, as with WB Online, there's more neat content there once you start to explore.

That said, Callahan's is a wonderful reference site: her news-hunting is irreplaceable during the college hoops season, and valuable year-round. She's also got WNBA links, general women's hoops history, youth camps, and the only TV schedule page with both WNBA and college games, on both regional and national networks. She even archives WNBA attendance stats.

Callahan also notes Melissa King's book, which we will review here as soon as we're finished reading it.